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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2015

QUOTE:
“Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.”
AUTHOR: Stephen Sondheim
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“No art is created perfectly the first time.”









COMPOSER 

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

Christmas Eve
Orchestral Suite
(1895)

I. Christmas Night
II. Ballet of the Stars 
III. Witches' Sabbath and Ride on the Devil's Back
IV. Polonaise 
V. Vakula and the Slippers
In Gogol’s story, Vakula, the blacksmith, is the son of the witch
 Solokha (pictured above). More than anything he wishes to win
 over the affections of Oksana, the beautiful daughter of
 a Cossack named Choub.
Sergey Alexandrovich Alimov: The Witch Solokha
Stage Design for Gogol’s play Christmas Eve, 2004
Although made into a suite, "Christmas Eve"
("Noch' pered Rozhdestvom), was originally
an opera Rimsky-Korsakov composed in 4 acts
with a libretto written by himself in 1894-1895 and
based on a short story of the same title, 

Night Before Christmas Story
(Christmas Eve)
By Nicolay Gogol
Music by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
(English Subtitles)

by Nikolai Gogol's
Nikolay Gogol

 "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka."
The same story also formed the basis of
Tchaikovsky's operas "Vakula the Smith" and
"Cherevichki."